Question Old SSD retaining its boot past as active, primary partition. Shouldn't that be my current boot drive?

[Gus_33]

Is this normal?

https://imgur.com/a/MNBgx8T

Disk 1 is an old SSD that I probably used to run an OS on, its MBR and is the Active primary partition.. but it has no OS on it anymore.

My OS is running from disk 3 which isn't an active primary partition, is GPT and is a much faster NVMe.

I am unable to make disk 3 (the C drive) active, its greyed out.

Should I be at all worried about this? I have had some issues with my PC but nothing too major. It does look a mess though with all those recovery partitions but I can't work out how to delete them.

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

Is this normal?

https://imgur.com/a/MNBgx8T

Disk 1 is an old SSD that I probably used to run an OS on, its MBR and is the Active primary partition.. but it has no OS on it anymore.

My OS is running from disk 3 which isn't an active primary partition, is GPT and is a much faster NVMe.

I am unable to make disk 3 (the C drive) active, its greyed out.

Should I be at all worried about this? I have had some issues with my PC but nothing too major. It does look a mess though with all those recovery partitions but I can't work out how to delete them.

The active flag is a MBR partition type attribute, and means nothing to the system since its booting in UEFI mode instead of CSR.

What you have to do is assign the partition a drive letter, then delete the partition. Otherwise you have to launch as administrator, a dos prompt window and run diskpart.

The disk number has no meaning other than listing them as SATA first, then PCI , then USB so if you thinking that the NVMe drive needs to be drive 0, it doesn't.

 

[Eximo]

Here is a guide on moving your boot partition to the drive of your choice:

View: https://youtu.be/oaH20g1kypA